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ART
is MONEY
There is a never-before
upswing in the contemporary Indian art mart with investors turning
from shares and gold to paintings. Vimla Patil
explores the dynamics of the big business
M.F.
Husain sold 125 canvases for a whopping Rs.100 crore to a business
tycoon. An auction by Christie’s in New York fetched Rs. one crore
($2,20,000) for a large S.H. Raza painting. A small B. Prabha canvas
sold for Rs.12.5 lakh. Auctioneers, gallery owners and art dealers are
proving that Indian contemporary art is probably one of the best
investments today.
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Galaxy of Musicians by Raja Ravi Varma
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Husain’s paintings are considered blue chip holdings
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In
time with the toons
Which are the
cartoons that strike a chord in the viewers and why, asks Jonathan
Brown
Recently
named history’s greatest cartoon by Channel 4, beating Tom and
Jerry, Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse, The Simpsons occupies
a unique place in global popular culture. Blisteringly satirical, funny,
intelligent and political, it is also stupendously popular. Its creators
hope that it will run until 2009, completing 20 network seasons to
become the longest-running entertainment programme on US television. A
feature-length movie is also planned.
Trek
record
The year is set to
bring adventure sports to the forefront with a number of events lined
up, writes M.S. Kohli
In
the recent years, sports like cricket, tennis and even hockey have
been getting extensive media coverage. Sania Mirza's appearance on the
international tennis arena and her winning the Hyderabad Open helped
to revive interest in the game. Golf, too, hitherto considered a
pastime of the old and the retired, is getting popular among the
youth.
To
stage with LOVE
The enthusiasm
generated by Aapki Soniya shows that theatre is winning back
old lovers.
Aditi Tandon reports
The
past few years have witnessed a resurgence of purposeful theatre in
India. Appreciation for the medium has enhanced manifold and several
fascinating themes have been handpicked for translation in the
language of drama.
Punjabi
hero in Paris
One Dollar Curry
is the newest in the crop of crossover films. Nirupama
Dutt gets director Vijay Singh talking
The
stories about the amazing mobility of the Punjabis are all too well
known. One of the many Punjabi jokes that express it is that of Neil
Armstrong landing on the moon only to find a Sardarji running a dhaba.
Lion
who won the war
An authentic depiction of how an individual led the Libyan resistance
against Mussolini’s fascists, Lion of the Desert is worth a
watch, writes Ervell E. Menezes
Set
in Libya between the two world wars, Lion of the Desert is a
powerful drama of the resistance put up by Libyan guerilla groups
against the occupation by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
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